Which sport drink and why?

I use Gatorade and Accelerade. I buy the powder form of Gatorade and mix it to my own concentrations.  It ends up being a little more diluted that what they recommend, but it works for me.  I love the accelerade, but it runs on the expensive side when compared to gatorade.  I've used it enough to know my stomach can tolerate it, so now I only use it forlong training runs and rides.

Chris

stay away from gatorade on endurace events because gatorade has simple sugars and requires more water to get it absorbed into the cells and you'll have to drink more of it to get the electrolytes you need.  trouble this simple sugar scenario is that during endurace events your body won't be able to process the amount of liquid required to give you the energy and more of the electrolytes you need from simple sugars and thus it'll stay in your stomach and cause bloating.  plus 6%-8% solution, the max concentration the body can absorb of simple sugars, only gives you 100 calories/hour.

complex carbs are better because their "energy" concentration is 3 times that of simple sugars and required less fluid for absorption.  comples carbs max concentration for absorption is 18%-24% and will give you 300 calories/hour.

so, when the benchmark is to consume 250-280 calories per hour in endurance events (over 90 min in length) which carbs would you use?

I am Cytomax fan!

Last November on my first marathon I brought 2 bottles of cytomax on my fuel bet for the last part of the race since I trained that way. After the mile 20 I was feeling tired so I figured it was time for some cytomax... maybe it was psychological but all of the sudden I felt great, revitalize, fresh and was able to finish the race strong (in fact the last 2 miles were my fastest splits!) So ever after that experience I always keep some cytomax for hard workouts 

Gatorade, why?  Because is cheap and I can find it anywhere.  I just ordered Sustained Energy from Hammer Nutrition (I'm a big fan of the Endurolytes).